Jennifer Galvão is the 2025-2026 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.
A graduate of the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, Jen is the recipient of the 2023-2025 Kenyon Review Fellowship in Fiction.
Her short fiction has been published or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Masters Review.
I’m curating a folio for The Kenyon Review themed around “Visitation.” Forthcoming in 2026!
I’m at work on a historical fiction novel about codfish, love triangles, and the Portuguese White Fleet.
In my short fiction, I write about girlhood, boybands, martyrdom, and the fanaticism of female friendship.
Currently…
Selected Publications
Forthcoming: The Red Zone, The Rumpus
Why We Chose It: “Prolonged Exposure”, The Kenyon Review
Stylite, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Issue 75
Degenerate Matter, Masters Review 2022 Summer Short Story Award
2025-2026 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing
2023-2025 Kenyon Review Fellow in Fiction
2024 Pushcart Prize nomination
2024 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Teach, Write, Play Fellowship
2024 Tin House Summer Workshop Participant
2023 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Contributing Participant
2023 James Jones First Novel Fellowship Semi-Finalist
2022-2023 Zell Postgraduate Fellowship in Creative Writing
2022 Geoffrey James Gosling Novel Prize, First Prize
2022 Hopwood Novel Award, First Prize
